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heh

nouninterjectioninterjectioncommon in dialogue

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The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician 𐤄, Aramaic 𐡄, Hebrew ה, Syriac ܗ, Arabic ه, and others).

noun

  1. 1

    The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician 𐤄, Aramaic 𐡄, Hebrew ה, Syriac ܗ, Arabic ه, and others).

interjection

  1. 1

    Weak amusement, sometimes signaling boredom or slight embrassment.

    Friend 1: Some people say a man is made outta mud.

    Friend 2: Heh.

Etymology

Onomatopoeia of a weak laugh.

interjection

  1. 1

    Variant of ehAlternative form of eh (“tag question”).

    He handed the fragment to Bass, saying, “A cold-blooded little thing—heh? Not really. They just acted that way, the way they bite. And little? Ha! Its wing span was eighteen feet.”

Forms

plural
hehs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).